Santa Fe, New Mexico, an Artists’ Mecca

Native Indian artists display their wares on blankets along the sidewalks of the plaza downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico. While visiting our friends in Corrales, New Mexico, we took several day trips to Santa Fe. I love this historic town! The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is a treasure, located on Museum Hill, it is informative, beautifully displaying the best of the traditional and contemporary Indian arts. We also visited the Turquoise Museum in Albuquerque where I learned a huge amount about this colorful gemstone which is also my birthstone. I love the culture, architecture, art, and history of this beautiful state. Our stay was too short but satisfying. We hope to return again before too long.

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Niebrugge Studio

Meet Gail Niebrugge

Gail Niebrugge (Knee-brew-ghe) born and raised in California has pursued art since childhood, winning a poster contest on the Johnny Jet television show at the age of twelve. Gail began her career as an illustrator for the US Navy and Marines in San Diego, and later established the Instructional Media Center for the Grossmont High School District in La Mesa, California. The Niebrugge family fell in love with Alaska while on vacation in 1976 and never returned home, instead they established a residence and studio in the remote interior settlement of Copper Center where the artist painted the … [Read More...]

Wikipedia defines pointillism as; "a style of painting in which small distinct points of primary colors create the impression of a wide selection of secondary and intermediate colors." It goes on to say that the mind and the eye mix the color spots into a full range of tones and that it is closely related to Divisionism. Divisionism was practiced by Georges Seurat during the Neo-Impressionism period. He broke his color into basic elements and painted very small and regular dots. His dots are carefully placed as to not touch each other, so the white under painted canvas shows around all of the dots.
I call my painting technique pointillism, but technically it is incorrect according to Wikipedia. The difference between my technique and true pointillism is that I use all … [Read More...]